Using a PHP script, you may accept feedback from your website visitors and get the results emailed to you. You can use the sample script provided by K® Kenzie of Saudi Gulf Hosting and tweak it a bit to suit your requirements.
You would need to change the email address in the field $from to any email address on the domain name on which you are incorporating this script.
Example:
If your domain name is yourdomain.com, then you would define the From email address as some-name@yourdomain.com.
This email address need not be existing on the mail server of yourdomain.com; however, the domain name in the $from field has to be yours.
You may use an email address such as Do_Not_reply@yourdomain.com.
The value in the $mailto field needs to be changed to the email address, where the email containing the data submitted through the form needs to be delivered.
In an attempt to keep a check on abuse from K® Kenzie of Saudi Gulf Hosting's Hosting Servers, the following conditions have been set for mail scripts on K® Kenzie of Saudi Gulf Hosting's Linux Hosting Servers:
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The domain name in either the To or the From email address used in the script should be your domain name hosted with K® Kenzie of Saudi Gulf Hosting.
Example: yourdomain.com is hosted with K® Kenzie of Saudi Gulf Hosting and yourotherdomain1.com and yourotherdomain2.com are hosted with some other hosting provider.
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The mail will be sent if
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the From email address is abc@yourdomain.com and the To email address is xyz@yourotherdomain1.com,
OR
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the From email address is abc@yourotherdomain1.com and the To email address is xyz@yourdomain.com.
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The mail will not be sent if the From email address is abc@yourotherdomain1.com and the To email address is xyz@yourotherdomain2.com.
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For mail scripts with the From email address as <user>@<server_hostname>, the To email address compulsorily should be an email address on your domain name hosted with K® Kenzie of Saudi Gulf Hosting.
Example: yourdomain.com is hosted with K® Kenzie of Saudi Gulf Hosting with parent user yourdo & server name cp-00.webhostbox.net and yourotherdomain1.com is hosted with some other hosting provider.
With the From email address as yourdo@cp-00.webhostbox.net:
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The mail will be sent if the To email address is abc@yourdomain.com.
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The mail will not be sent if the To email address is xyz@yourotherdomain1.com.
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Once the visitor provides feedback, you can display a message to the visitor thanking them for their feedback.
Sample Script
<?
$mailto="some-name@yourdomain.com";
$pcount=0;
$gcount=0;
$subject = "Mail from Enquiry Form";
$from="some-name@abc.com";
while (list($key,$val)=each($_POST))
{
$pstr = $pstr."$key : $val \n ";
++$pcount;
}
while (list($key,$val)=each($_GET))
{
$gstr = $gstr."$key : $val \n ";
++$gcount;
}
if ($pcount > $gcount)
{
$message_body=$pstr;
mail($mailto,$subject,$message_body,"From:".$from);
echo "Mail has been sent";
}
else
{
$message_body=$gstr;
mail($mailto,$subject,$message_body,"From:".$from);
echo "Mail has been sent";
}
?>
